John Roland Seymour Phillips (born 1940) is a British historian and academic. He did a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the

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in 1967, on the subject of the 14th-century Earl of Pembroke,

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. Later he published a book on the same subject. Phillips was head of the department of medieval history, at the

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. Today he is professor emeritus at that university. In 2010, Phillips contributed a volume on King

Edward II Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to t ...

to the

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